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The Fruit of Liberty : Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (383 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674726390
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Fruit of LibertyDDC classification:
  • 945.51106
LOC classification:
  • DG738
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: States and Status in the Florentine Renaissance -- 1 - Imagining Florence: The Civic World of the Late Fifteenth Century -- 2 - Great Expectations: The Place of the Medici in the Office-Holding Class, 1480-1527 -- 3 - Defending Liberty: The Climacteric of Republican Florence -- 4 - Neither Fish nor Flesh: The Difficulty of Being Florentine, 1530- 1537 -- 5 - Reimagining Florence: The Court Society of the Mid-Sixteenth Century -- Conclusion: Florence and Renaissance Republicanism -- Appendix 1: A Partial Reconstruction of the Office-Holding Class of Florence, ca. 1500 -- Appendix 2: Biographical Information -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: In the sixteenth century, the city-state of Florence failed. In its place the Medicis created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty analyzes the slow transformations that predated and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: States and Status in the Florentine Renaissance -- 1 - Imagining Florence: The Civic World of the Late Fifteenth Century -- 2 - Great Expectations: The Place of the Medici in the Office-Holding Class, 1480-1527 -- 3 - Defending Liberty: The Climacteric of Republican Florence -- 4 - Neither Fish nor Flesh: The Difficulty of Being Florentine, 1530- 1537 -- 5 - Reimagining Florence: The Court Society of the Mid-Sixteenth Century -- Conclusion: Florence and Renaissance Republicanism -- Appendix 1: A Partial Reconstruction of the Office-Holding Class of Florence, ca. 1500 -- Appendix 2: Biographical Information -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

In the sixteenth century, the city-state of Florence failed. In its place the Medicis created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty analyzes the slow transformations that predated and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject.

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